ALternatively, I mounted the desktop PC folder with the image using nfs and dd from there.

ALternatively, I mounted the desktop PC folder with the image using nfs and dd from there.

-- [[User:fmartins]] 2009-08-15

-- [[User:fmartins]] 2009-08-15

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Revision as of 07:51, 16 August 2009

please refer to this very wikipage regarding -oo and flowcontrol
Stephan_schmidt had exactly same issue and we fixed it yesterday, using these modifications

WARNING : Flash failed ! From Sleg on 2008/11/25 :

I had a problem during flashing my firmware ... I started again the module by typing 's3c24xx-gpio b7=1' as said in the wiki, and it started to flash the firmware. While it was flashing (I could see the progress ...) I failed by a 'Flash operation timeout'

iam using an non-us gsm-freerunner (recived yesterday so most likely the latest hardwar)

thakoman

[2008-11-19 04:46:39] <Wonka> DocScrutinizer: flashing to moko10-beta2 went though cleanly, i already had working ppp connects with the previously non-working SIM.

[2008-11-19 04:48:24] <Wonka> DocScrutinizer: but there are still problems... more often than not, the GSM chip does not answer. pppd opens the device, gets "AT command interpreter ready", utters "AT\n" and gets nothing. power off, power on, reset on, reset off, try gain... sometimes it works, but mostly not.

O2 UK prepay 3G SIM works with moko10-beta2, was previously not
detected. T-mobile UK prepay SIM and old Orange UK contract SIM work
with both old and new. Testing so far is cursory at best, but looks good.
[quote: Alastair Johnson on devel-ML]

[2008-11-21]
I flashed 6 out of our 8 Freerunner V.6 according to the GSM/Flashing- guide. I had no problems and the previously useless 3G- SIMs are
working fine now. It seems like the 3G- SIM Issue, our beloved #666, is solved. You should point it out clearly. I heard a lot of users complain about this. The solution is simple and well hidden on the website. By the way, i have new 3G- SIM cards of the following german providers running without problems (O2, T- Mobile, E-Plus, Vodafone). Before the flashing procedure the Vodafone cards were not detected. Good work guys... thanks!
Reiner

Works now with new gsm firmware moko10beta2 with O2 in Germany

Very great, I can make calls now after waiting for 5 month, big surprise :).
Thanks a lot!
--Kevin 15:18, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm very happy to be able to report that the update went smoothly for
me (without yielding any surplus "building materials") and that a new
O2 SIM from http://freesim.o2.co.uk/ which never worked in my
Freerunner before now seems to be working fine. Great work!

Tom

--

Thomas White
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Electron Microscopy Group (PhD Student)
University of Cambridge / Downing College

The flash worked without a hitch for me and now I am able to use a Vodafone
prepaid SIM in my 850MHz unit while back in Europe. I am running Om2008.9
with the 20081023 FDOM modifications applied.

Great job!

-Jacob

Hello!

Replying under subject Success :)
I've combined what Michael said (few echo 1 >> .... and echo 0 >> ....
in the other terminal) and Joerg's suggestion (-oo instead of -oO) and
it worked perfectly. The upgrade to moko10 was done.

So I can confirm the freerunner now works with Simobil's (Slovenian
GSM operator) SIM.

Great job and thanks to all that took the time to do it.

Boštjan

State SD-image?

Any update on a SD-image for GSM flashing?

[joerg 2008-12-10 02:43:32]

We're busy on this. Follow wiki instructions, or come up with an automatism by yourself. Expect any update on january.

microSD size issue 4Gb KO, 1Gb Ok

I use a usd 4Gb that boots well with Qi, but don't with NOR, this kind of usd can't be used then for flashing.
I nevertheless did the test and i confirm that it worked only when i used a smaller 1Gb usd.

[Philippelhardy 2009-06_27]

bug #1024

[Tebra 2009-01-13 07:45]

Hi. Are you working on moko11 to fix #1024 bug?
Because of that bug I can't use android distribution.

German/Vodafone

Got a new Vodafone Prepaid SIM-Card. Didn't work with QTExtended nor with Android until I've used the procedure to upgrade the GSM-Firmware. Looks like it's not just "swiss sim cards".
Regards, --Rtreffer 17:14, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Broken GTA01bv4 GSM Modem Fix

I recently had to do a special process to recover my GTA01bv4 after breaking the gsm modem with a failed flash. The process is actually fairly simple.

Unplug USB and remove the battery for about 10s to ensure that the GSM chipset is powered off, then replace the battery and re-connect the USB

boot up from a distro that is neutered so that it does not access or turn on the gsm modem at all

===== Visibility of the final Messagge "D_O_N_E" =====

At the end of flashing process the final message "D_O_N_E" in green over black, it's not so readable. In general if yous see a green messagge, also if you cannot read it well, you can safely reboot, the Flashing process it's done.
--Apertum 13:18, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion for uSD Instruction Steps

On the second step of the uSD Installation procedure with dd command, i suggest to add this text:

Before proceding make sure that the uSD memory is NOT already formatted. With simple GUI like Gparted o QParted, you can unmount the right uSD partitions, and remove all the partition to have a simple uSD not formatted (the right formatted partition will be automatically transferred with the next 'dd' image transfer command).

Because i've seen that if i have an already Ext2/3 formatted uSD (or any other partition), the 'dd' Command it's not working tranferring the image.--Apertum 21:03, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

The original istructions to dd to physical device will overwrite whatever filesystem may have been on uSD, incl. partition-table/MBR. If dd is not working, you encounter some different problem, maybe caused by not correctly unmounting all partitions, or by a typo in dd. The instructions cover these cases as well.

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please refer to this very wikipage regarding -oo and flowcontrol
Stephan_schmidt had exactly same issue and we fixed it yesterday, using these modifications

WARNING : Flash failed ! From Sleg on 2008/11/25 :

I had a problem during flashing my firmware ... I started again the module by typing 's3c24xx-gpio b7=1' as said in the wiki, and it started to flash the firmware. While it was flashing (I could see the progress ...) I failed by a 'Flash operation timeout'

iam using an non-us gsm-freerunner (recived yesterday so most likely the latest hardwar)

thakoman

[2008-11-19 04:46:39] <Wonka> DocScrutinizer: flashing to moko10-beta2 went though cleanly, i already had working ppp connects with the previously non-working SIM.

[2008-11-19 04:48:24] <Wonka> DocScrutinizer: but there are still problems... more often than not, the GSM chip does not answer. pppd opens the device, gets "AT command interpreter ready", utters "AT\n" and gets nothing. power off, power on, reset on, reset off, try gain... sometimes it works, but mostly not.

O2 UK prepay 3G SIM works with moko10-beta2, was previously not
detected. T-mobile UK prepay SIM and old Orange UK contract SIM work
with both old and new. Testing so far is cursory at best, but looks good.
[quote: Alastair Johnson on devel-ML]

[2008-11-21]
I flashed 6 out of our 8 Freerunner V.6 according to the GSM/Flashing- guide. I had no problems and the previously useless 3G- SIMs are
working fine now. It seems like the 3G- SIM Issue, our beloved #666, is solved. You should point it out clearly. I heard a lot of users complain about this. The solution is simple and well hidden on the website. By the way, i have new 3G- SIM cards of the following german providers running without problems (O2, T- Mobile, E-Plus, Vodafone). Before the flashing procedure the Vodafone cards were not detected. Good work guys... thanks!
Reiner

Works now with new gsm firmware moko10beta2 with O2 in Germany

Very great, I can make calls now after waiting for 5 month, big surprise :).
Thanks a lot!
--Kevin 15:18, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm very happy to be able to report that the update went smoothly for
me (without yielding any surplus "building materials") and that a new
O2 SIM from http://freesim.o2.co.uk/ which never worked in my
Freerunner before now seems to be working fine. Great work!

Tom

--

Thomas White
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Electron Microscopy Group (PhD Student)
University of Cambridge / Downing College

The flash worked without a hitch for me and now I am able to use a Vodafone
prepaid SIM in my 850MHz unit while back in Europe. I am running Om2008.9
with the 20081023 FDOM modifications applied.

Great job!

-Jacob

Hello!

Replying under subject Success :)
I've combined what Michael said (few echo 1 >> .... and echo 0 >> ....
in the other terminal) and Joerg's suggestion (-oo instead of -oO) and
it worked perfectly. The upgrade to moko10 was done.

So I can confirm the freerunner now works with Simobil's (Slovenian
GSM operator) SIM.

Great job and thanks to all that took the time to do it.

Boštjan

State SD-image?

Any update on a SD-image for GSM flashing?

[joerg 2008-12-10 02:43:32]

We're busy on this. Follow wiki instructions, or come up with an automatism by yourself. Expect any update on january.

microSD size issue 4Gb KO, 1Gb Ok

I use a usd 4Gb that boots well with Qi, but don't with NOR, this kind of usd can't be used then for flashing.
I nevertheless did the test and i confirm that it worked only when i used a smaller 1Gb usd.

[Philippelhardy 2009-06_27]

bug #1024

[Tebra 2009-01-13 07:45]

Hi. Are you working on moko11 to fix #1024 bug?
Because of that bug I can't use android distribution.

German/Vodafone

Got a new Vodafone Prepaid SIM-Card. Didn't work with QTExtended nor with Android until I've used the procedure to upgrade the GSM-Firmware. Looks like it's not just "swiss sim cards".
Regards, --Rtreffer 17:14, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Broken GTA01bv4 GSM Modem Fix

I recently had to do a special process to recover my GTA01bv4 after breaking the gsm modem with a failed flash. The process is actually fairly simple.

Unplug USB and remove the battery for about 10s to ensure that the GSM chipset is powered off, then replace the battery and re-connect the USB

boot up from a distro that is neutered so that it does not access or turn on the gsm modem at all

===== Visibility of the final Messagge "D_O_N_E" =====

At the end of flashing process the final message "D_O_N_E" in green over black, it's not so readable. In general if yous see a green messagge, also if you cannot read it well, you can safely reboot, the Flashing process it's done.
--Apertum 13:18, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion for uSD Instruction Steps

On the second step of the uSD Installation procedure with dd command, i suggest to add this text:

Before proceding make sure that the uSD memory is NOT already formatted. With simple GUI like Gparted o QParted, you can unmount the right uSD partitions, and remove all the partition to have a simple uSD not formatted (the right formatted partition will be automatically transferred with the next 'dd' image transfer command).

Because i've seen that if i have an already Ext2/3 formatted uSD (or any other partition), the 'dd' Command it's not working tranferring the image.--Apertum 21:03, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

The original istructions to dd to physical device will overwrite whatever filesystem may have been on uSD, incl. partition-table/MBR. If dd is not working, you encounter some different problem, maybe caused by not correctly unmounting all partitions, or by a typo in dd. The instructions cover these cases as well.